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Ron Carlson teaches Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He is the author of six books of fiction: At the Jim Bridger (stories), The Hotel Eden (stories, Plan B for the Middle Class (stories), The News of the World (stories), Truants (novel), and Betrayed by F.Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific first novel,
By Thomas "Personalized Signature" (Clifton, Vatican City State (Holy See)) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Betrayed By F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
He designed a roller coaster ride of a novel - you can see him telling his fellow post-grad students about it. "...and *then* - no wait, there's more! - and *then* he goes to prison, but he escapes, see..."
The hero has a strong voice which makes the novel whole, and the novel is about him commenting on the things that happen to him, but he starts in grad school, quits and goes to Mexico, then gets a job pumping gas - all commented on with irony and self-detatchment, very amusingly - then he gets framed and goes to prison, then he plays baseball in the prison league, then his team escapes from prison...it's a unique take on many genres, well worth reading. It reaches no conclusions except that you can't live your life based soley on romatic principles, and if the end of the novel leaves you at no particular destination, at least you had a lot of fun getting there. Great title. A must read for young men for whom The Great Gatsby is their favorite novel.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pulling Out the Stops,
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This review is from: Betrayed By F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
This book has a heart so big that it makes you breathe a big sigh and smile and say, "First Novel." The whole kitchen sink is here and the devil in the drain too. The venue shifts often and different parts of the book are hilarious in different ways. I've read this book a few times over several years, and I keep telling people about this part or that part that was called to mind by my current situation. Not perfect, but inspiring for any writer looking at the mountain of a novel to be written.
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Scott Fitzgerald, Alien Visitor, Wayne Hardell, Darrel Teeth, Wayne Gunn, Black Heron, Larry Boosinger, Virgil Benson, Salt Lake, Big House, Barbar Durrant, Bill Nighthorse, Dotty Everest, Russell Case, Officer Sawyer, Leeland Rose, Uinta Mountains, Right Knight, Body Movement, The Guide, Rocky Mountain, Eastern Utah, Whilewillow Village, Uinta Raceway, Viet Nam Browse Sample Pages:
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